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Satellite L-space knots

Geometry/Topology

Speaker: Jennifer Hom, Georgia Tech
Related Webpage: http://people.math.gatech.edu/~jhom6/
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Mon, May 1 2017, 1:10PM

An L-space is a rational homology three-sphere with the simplest possible Heegaard Floer homology. Which knots admit L-space surgeries? We will give sufficient conditions for a satellite knot to admit an L-space surgery. Parts of this are joint work with Tye Lidman and Fery Vafaee.